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Email this pageTopic: Measurement and Testing with Pain in Animals
Description: Clinical assessment of pain in veterinary patients is difficult, as there is no gold standard from which to work. Numerous methods have been explored, and nearly every researcher reinvents the wheel with a new scoring system for pain. This talk will explore the challenges of measurement in the absence of a gold standard and the strategies employed to evaluate pain in clinical veterinary patients. These principles can be extrapolated to assessment of any subjective domain where verbal reporting is impossible (infants, disabled, psychopathology) or challenging.
Erik Hofmeister, DVM, DACVA, DECVAA, MA
Associate Professor, Veterinary Anesthesiology Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery
College of Veterinary Medicine University of Georgia
Monday February 13, 2012 from 12:00 – 1:00
Coverdell Building Room 175
Pizza will be served! Bring your own drinks!
